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Type One Energy raised $200M to build a fusion power plant by 2034

Type One Energy is betting that its lean approach to fusion power will get a power plant on the grid faster, and investors have rewarded it with $200 million.
Type One Energy, a Knoxville, Tennessee-based startup founded in 2019 to build fusion power plants, announced Tuesday morning that it has raised $200 million from investors. The funding helps the startup move up the ranks of the top-funded fusion power companies. But fusion is a costly field to work in. It sits at the cutting edge of plasma physics, materials science, and advanced computation, and even $200 million doesn’t always…
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